TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 A Roofed Lizard 5 CHAPTER 2 Plates and Spikes 11 CHAPTER 3 Huge Hungry Herbivores 19 CHAPTER 4 Still a Mystery 25 DIGGING DEEPER Studying Sophie 28 Focus on Stegosaurus 30 Glossary 31 To Learn More 32 Index 32
CHAPTER 1 A ROOFED LIZARD In the late 1800s fossil hunter Marshall Felch owned a farm near Cañon City Colorado The farm was part of the Colorado The farm was part of the Morrison Formation This area contained Morrison Formation This area contained many fossils In (cid:141)(cid:143) (cid:9) Felch was digging many fossils In Felch was digging for dinosaur bones in a nearby for dinosaur bones in a nearby quarry when he uncovered part of a skeleton The when he uncovered part of a skeleton The skeleton included large plates and spikes Some of the bones Felch found are part of a skeleton on display at the Yale Peabody Museum 5
